Azure Weekly

Issue #33 - 4th July 2015

This week's DockerCon in San Francisco saw a flurry of Docker-related news, including the announcement of the Open Container Project (OCP), a not-profit group formed of vendors including Docker and Microsoft, aimed at defining common specifications for container format and runtime. The launch of the project is covered on the Docker, Azure and Microsoft Openness blogs. 

There were also several Azure announcements this week. Still in the world of containers, there was the the arrival of Container Apps in the Azure Marketplace. In the world of storage and data there was the limited public preview of Azure SQL Data Warehouse and 21 new partners for this service,  and a lower minimum size for Azure SQL Database Elastic Database Pools reducing from 200 eDTUs to 100 eDTUs, which halves the minimum entry price by 50%. In the world of identity and access management, there was an update to the Azure AD Conditional Access preview, providing more apps and the ability to block access for users not at work. Finally in the world of apps, the 1.0.0 release of Application Insights Windows SDKs was announced.

Finally, Scott Guthrie announced two new Azure billing APIs; a Usage API that exposes subscription usage data and can correlate the usage/costs by resource tags, and a RateCard API, which exposes information on available Azure resources.

⚖️ Management and Governance

🖥️ Compute

🌐 Networking

💡 Internet of Things

⚙️ Data and Analytics

📦 Storage

🎬 Media

⚙️ Hybrid Integration

  • 'Gaurav' writes part 2 of his series on Azure Service Bus, covering Queues & Messages

⚙️ Identity and Access Management

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